Anna Hutchens

Ms Anna Hutchens's Details

Affiliation

The Australian National University

Location

Australia

Email

anna.hutchens@anu.edu.au

Website

http://cgkd.anu.edu.au/menus/people_staff&students.php#hutchens

Publications:

Authors Year Title Journal or Book Other Language Type Link
Anna Hutchens 2007 Entrepreneurship, Power and Defiance: The Globalisation of the Fair Trade Movement

The Australian National University

English Report
Anna Hutchens 2009 Changing Big Business. The Globalisation of the Fair Trade Movement

Edward Elgar

English Book Link

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Research Interest

Anna is a PhD Scholar at the Centre for Governance of Knowledge and Development (CGKD) at the Australian National University (ANU). Prior to taking up her ANU PhD Scholarship in 2004, Anna graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree with First-Class Honours (in Sociology) from the Australian National University in 2003. Anna recently submitted her Ph.D, 'Entrepreneurship, Power and Defiance: The Globalisation of the Fair Trade Movement', in which she developed an interdisciplinary thesis about the micro-processes of industrial transformation. An inductive account of how weak actors bring about sweeping social and economic change through markets, the thesis draws on extensive interviews conducted across Europe and the US with members of the fair trade networks. Anna is particularly interested in the movement's pioneers and their innovations in commercial Fair Trade Organisations and brand companies, and the evolution of governance in the movement's international associations, IFAT and FLO. She has an interest in the themes of power, knowledge, the social psychology of 'defiance', economic evolution and entrepreneurship, institutional and networked governance, intellectual property (specifically trade marks and brands) and their impact on development. Anna is currently seeking funding to undertake a large-scale postdoctoral research project involving in-depth empirical analysis of 10 successful fair trade brand companies situated in Europe and the US complemented by interviews with producers in 4 countries in the Asia Pacific region to examine the potential for the uptake of these models between producers and Australian fair traders. Anna is actively involved in the ACT and Australian fair trade movement. She is the co-convenor of the ACT Fair Trade Group, and was the Coordinator of the annual Fair Trade Fortnight in 2006.